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Pioneering new grounds
Wild West meets wild books, musicians
The Women’s Professional Rodeo Association World Finals ride into town this week. MIKE SIMONS / Tulsa World file
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
Published: 11/12/2009 2:22 AM
Last Modified: 11/12/2009 6:00 AM
They play the game their own way by inventing their own rules, and this weekend is for all those who defy conventions of the world stage — no matter the form.
And who better to head it up than Travis Tritt, booked for a Saturday performance in nearby Osage Country.
The WPRA World Finals
Now-Sunday
Built Ford Tough Livestock Complex, Expo Square
4145 E. 21st St.
Guys aren’t the only cowpokes with a heart for roaming and roping.
The Women’s Professional Rodeo Association has been around
since 1948, which means ranch women have been skirting
exhausted notions of femininity well before the Sexual Revolu
tion stormed into the ’60s.
Barrel racing, roping, cattle runs, futurities and more
are on the schedule for this event. Go online for
details.
Admission is $15-$20 for Friday’s finals
events plus Thomas Martinez concert and $10
for Saturday’s finals. 744-1113, tulsaworld.com/exposquare
“Born Again Yesterday”
8 p.m. Sunday and Nov. 22
Nightingale Theater
1416 E. Fourth St.
What happens to a guy when
he grows up steeped in funda
mentalist-thinking Christianity
and walks away from it altogether?
Tulsa actor Justin McKean
brings back his one-man show with a
humorous look at his own soul struggle,
the importance of an examined life and the
surprising twists of losing your religion. Will
you agree? Maybe not, but it’s interesting to watch someone else make the
leap.
Tickets are $10. 633-8666, tulsaworld.com/nightingale
Wanenmacher’s Gun Show
8 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday
QuikTrip Center, Expo Square
4145 E. 21st St.
In the lore of the West, guns and outlaws went together like Jesse and James, but these days most
people prefer to keep firearms out of the hands of living lawbreakers.
Still, gun enthusiasts continue holding up their Second Amendment right and buying that bumper
sticker proclaiming, “They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.”
The Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Gun Show has guns, ammo, knives and plenty to browse — maybe even
stickers.
Admission is $3-$10. 744-1113, tulsaworld.com/exposquare
Travis Tritt
7 p.m. Saturday
Million Dollar Elm Casino
L.L. Tisdale Parkway and 36th Street North
When country music gained an un-nostalgic
cool factor in the early to mid-1990s with Garth
Brooks and other “new country” hat tippers,
Travis Tritt wasn’t known for entering a stage
wearing a stetson.
Missing, too, was the “cowboy uniform”
consisting of bold, structured Western
shirts, jeans and boots.
Instead, a long-locked Tritt went another
direction in his sound and walked
the edge of Southern rock.
His music is what earned Tritt his
reputation as an outlaw musician
— that and his appearance in film
and television. Anyone remember
“Outlaw Justice” on television?
Tritt continues to do things his
way by playing Tulsa minus a big
band set-up — Saturday, he goes
acoustic.
Tickets are $30. 699-7667
The Literati Indie
Book Fair
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday
McBirney Mansion
1414 S. Galveston
Ave.
Small presses don’t
get half the recognition
or readership they
deserve (some may
say), but they refuse to
go away. The Oklahoma
Small Press Association
would like to remind you
that divergent voices are
still a part of the social discourse. Not convinced? Check out the titles of the
Literati Indie Book Fair.
Made possible by Rampage Artist Inc., the fair will feature authors
from across the state and region in poetry, graphic novels, children’s
books, experimental fiction and many other genres that you’ve probably
heard of, or not.
tulsaworld.com/indiebookfair
Ghostland
Observatory
8:30 p.m. Friday
Cain’s Ballroom
423 N. Main St.
One wears a giant blue cape with a crusader’s cross on the
back — easily viewed because that’s all half the audience ever
sees — and the other slinks and teases across the stage in dark
shades and long braids.
As Ghostland Observatory, Aaron Behrens and Thomas Ross Turner
put on one hot show all by themselves and pack a ballroom like no other
electro-funk-dance-rock duo from Austin, Texas. And they do it without
the sort of publicity wheel that most music acts dream of having churning
away behind the scenes.
Take a look at independent music today, and dance!
For more, see Page 3. Tickets are $22-$24 (additional fees may apply).
(866) 977-6849, tulsaworld.com/cains
Yesudas in Concert
6:30 p.m. Saturday
John H. Williams Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center
110 E. Second St.
Most singers and musicians make it big because they acquire a
signature sound and look to go with it, but Yesudas stubbornly does
it all.
Whether he’s singing classical Indian, contemporary, East,
West or even playback for Bollywood actors (think of what
Marni Nixon did for Natalie Wood in “West Side Story”),
Yesudas is said to possess one of the most beautiful voices
in the world. There must be something to it if India’s
actors are lining up to lip-sync to his voice.
For more, see Page 15. Tickets are $25-
$40. 596-7111, tulsaworld.com/mytix
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
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